Tuesday 12 October 2010

It was Tuesday, under the sign of Libra. The US president was Barack Obama (Democratic).
In that special week of October people in US were listening to Just The Way You Are by Bruno Mars.
Ip Man, directed by Wilson Yip, was one of the most viewed movies released in 2010
while The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson was one of the best selling books.
On TV people were watching Hard Drive 13.
If you liked videogames you were probably playing Airport Mania or The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
But much more happened that day: find out below..

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Famous Deaths:

Facts:

Two explosions occur in the southern Yemeni city of Aden, killing one person and injuring several others. The Al-Qaeda offshoot in the country also states its intention to establish a ampquotnew armyampquot to overthrow the President. (Voice of Russia)

Two people are killed and ten injured after a NATO helicopter explodes just after landing in eastern Afghanistan. (AP via ''San Jose Mercury News'')

A Nigeria Police Force station in the northern city of Maiduguri is destroyed in an attack blamed on the Boko Haram Islamist group. (BBC)

British author Howard Jacobson wins the Man Booker Prize for Fiction for his book ''The Finkler Question''. (''Sydney Morning Herald'')

Greenpeace sends Facebook a letter containing half a million signatures asking the company to cut its ties to coal based electricity. (Reuters)

Nearly 700 people from a small town within Lagos, Nigeria, are relocated following heavy flooding. (CNN)

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono tours the disaster area resulting from the 2010 floods in West Papua Province. (RNZI)

Iran says two foreigners arrested for interviewing the son of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani had connections to ampquotanti-revolutionaryampquot groups abroad. (Press TV)

Judge Virginia A. Phillips of the United States District Court for the Central District of California orders an injunction against the United States military continuing its don't ask don't tell policy against lesbian and gay members. (AP via ''New York Times'')

The trial of Ahmed Ghailani, the first Guantanamo Bay prisoner to face a criminal trial in the United States, begins in New York City. (Reuters)

Kim Jong-il's eldest son, Kim Jong-nam, announces his opposition to the hereditary succession plan in North Korea which would see power transferred to his younger brother Kim Jong-un. (''Korea Herald'')

The winners' list of the Kyrgyzstani parliamentary election is topped by the Ata-Zhurt party, led by former Emergency Situations Minister Kamchybek Tashiyev and is particularly popular in the south, gaining 8.88 percent of the vote. (Xinhua)

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